Winter Gardening

Before the heavy rains of winter start, it is time to get out into your garden and cut your perennials.  Cut them back to about two or three inches.  This may seem like a harsh treatment for plants that brought you so much joy through spring and summer, but when spring arrives you will have bigger, healthier, and more beautiful plants.  Your perennials will revive from the roots, so removing last years growth will allow the new growth to be seen more readily.  Cutting the plants back now will be easier than cutting them in the spring when new growth starts.  I like to use my hedge shears for this process, just make sure you move your drip system out of the way before hand.  Make sure you remove the cuttings, and your them into your compost bin or green waste.